BOGOTA: Colombia has offered to pay for the \u201cdignified\u201d deportation of its citizens from the United States, the foreign ministry said Friday, a week after a public spat between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump over the removal of migrants.
\nThe two leaders had issued threats and counter threats of major trade tariffs of up to 50 percent, and Washington\u2019s embassy in Bogota stopped issuing visas from Monday to Friday in retaliation for Petro\u2019s refusal to allow US military planes to return Colombian migrants to their country.
\nPetro had accused the United States of treating the migrants like criminals, placing them in shackles and handcuffs.
\nColombia\u2019s foreign ministry said Friday it had proposed to Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump\u2019s special envoy for Latin America, that Bogota would \u201cimmediately assume the transfer of all citizens deported by the United States,\u201d covering transportation costs for its nationals, according to a statement.
\nPetro has said his government would not allow expelled migrants to travel in handcuffs.
\nThe Trump administration had announced this week a series of sanctions against Colombia, before backtracking, with the White House saying Bogota had accepted its conditions and reversed course.
\nOn Tuesday and Wednesday, Colombian military and civilian aircraft repatriated the first groups of migrants to Bogota.
\nAccording to Petro, hundreds of Colombians, including several children, were returned to their country in \u201cdignified\u201d conditions. None of them were \u201cconfirmed criminals,\u201d he added.
\nColombia is expecting the return of around 27,000 migrants whose deportation orders have been signed in the last six months by the Trump administration or that of his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, a Colombian presidential source told AFP.
\nTrump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history, vowing to expel millions of undocumented immigrants, many from Latin American nations.
\nThe United States is Colombia\u2019s largest trade partner and it has provided millions of dollars in aid over decades to fight drug trafficking and terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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